aug, 6th - 6 months....

"Conversation in Italy is personal. Italians are interested in you, your family, and children. Especially children - so you can fish out those snapshots of the bambini without feeling gauche or provincial."

Fodor's Modern Guides. Italy 1957.

day 175:

6 months old today! so...the 6 month round-up....

Dimensions & Weight:

Lenth - 67cms 
(now requires two people to measure a very wriggly baby...bring on the standing-against-a-wall-with-a-ruler years)

Foot Length - 9.8cms (no change)

Hand Length - 8cms (no change) 

Ear Length - 4.5cms 

(which hasn't changed in 4 months now..so just goes to show that ears don't grow very fast)

Hair - growing...yay!!! still strawberry blonde.

Weight - still haven't weighed her...but you know, she looks healthy.

This Month's Likes & Dislikes:

Likes -

• scooting around on the floor without actually crawling
• rolling and rolling and rolling....still
• playing in the park with her yoga-buddies (day 159)

• sitting...with some dramatic face-planting....(soft surfaces still critical)
• swimming and especially splashing (day 161)
• sleeping with her hands behind her head....sunbathing style

• soprano singing....very, very...very high pitched...still
• blowing rasberries....still
• bouncing...boing...boing....boing in her door bouncer (day 168)
• eating toes...still
• her cousins sheika and ethan...they make her belly-laugh

• saying mamamaamamamamammmmmamam...now to brainwash her with dada too
• unusual pureed food combinations....pomegranate + plum + guava or spinach+ parsnip + basil or melon + avocado...and alfresco dining

• violent forms of affection...hair pulling, nose grabbing, nail raking, eye poking.....still
• grass between the fingers

Dislikes -

• baby porridge (day 164)
• peas
• loud sneezes
• not being able to crawl....very frustrating
• the italian baby formula equivalent...not quite the same

p.s. since this is the big half a year....i will also post a parent-progress-report when i get back to london next week.

jun, 8th - perspective revisited....

day 119:

on day 33 i put limi into perspective. pics don't always give you a sense of scale and even though she is approximately the length of two desk rulers i thought that a photoshoot with everyday objects would help. so...now that she's 119 days old...it's maybe time to revisit these pics and see what's changed....

THEN: she is about the length of two bottles of wine....
NOW: she is about the length of two and a half bottles of wine....

THEN: or, two whisks, if you're a cook....
NOW: or, two and a half slightly chewed whisks, if you're a cook....

THEN: smaller than her largest soft toy....

NOW: leaving monk for dust....

THEN: with a head about the length of an iPhone...

NOW: still with a head about the length of an iPhone.....and now able to make calls!

THEN: and a body the length of a magazine....

NOW: body, still about a length of a magazine....

jun, 6th - 4 months.....

day 117:


4 months old today!


Dimensions & Weight:

Lenth - 63cms

Foot Length - 9.5cms

Hand Length - 7.5cms

Ear Length - 4.5cms

Weight - not sure...tried to weigh her on the home scale and the cooking scale but couldn't get either to work properly...alas, will have to take her in to the doctors!*


This Month's Likes & Dislikes:


Likes -

• blowing rasberries....both giving and receiving
• eating toes...and trying for a whole foot

• rolling onto her side
• being read to....we've started Winnie-the-Pooh reading hour (okay...reading 15 minutes)
• crazy kicking legs and waving arms

• baths...with some impressive, crazy-kicking-legs-and-waving-arms splashing these days
• full-on pouting (brand new thing in the last two days)

Dislikes -

• sleeping in.....time that could be spent toe eating
• wearing socks....hinders toe eating
• wearing baby-gros with feet.....hinders toe eating
• sitting in the bumbo....hinders toe eating
• sitting in the bouncing chair...hinders toe eating

* i weighed her on day 120 and she is now 5.90kgs....which is between 25 & 50% on the baby percentile graph....so perfectly normal.yay!

ps. after discovering Hipstamatic (day 115), a friend enlightened me to Polarize, a free iPhone app that turns your pics into a POLAROID!!! The above photos were all taken playing around with this app.

may, 6th - 3 months.....

day 88:

3 months today and celebrating in Hong Kong....

Dimensions:

Lenth - 62cms

Foot Length - 9cms

Hand Length - 7cms

Ear Length - 4.5cms

limi and sheika, her eldest cousin. limi looks very similar to sheika at the same age...

apr, 6th - 2 months....

day 58:

Two months...and in pink for a change!

Dimensions & Weight

Lenth - 57cms

Foot Length - 9cms

Hand Length - 7cms

Ear Length - 4.5cms

Weight - 4.05kgs (at 6.5 weeks)

with Best Friend...Zozo....

mar, 6th - 1 month...

day 28:

Dimensions & Weight

Lenth - 55cms

Foot Length - 8cms

Hand Length - 6cms

Ear Length - 4cms

Weight - 3.56kgs

One month today. Bring on the next 17 years and 11 months.....at least until we ship her off to university!